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Strategic Reorientation and Responses to the Asian Financial Crisis: The Case of the Manufacturing Industry in Singapore

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  • Hwee Hoon Tan
  • Hai Hui See

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Taking the Asian financial crisis as a base model that triggers decline among manufacturing firms in Singapore, this paper identified two main strategies taken: offensive strategic reorientation and defensive strategic shift. We hypothesized that firms that adopt the offensive strategic reorientation strategy attributed decline to controllable factors, have a higher level of slack, and are bigger in size. On the other hand, firms that adopt defensive strategic shift attributed decline to uncontrollable factors, are under greater severity of decline, have a lower level of slack and are smaller in size. We found significant relationships for the defensive strategic shift strategy.

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  • Hwee Hoon Tan & Hai Hui See, 2004. "Strategic Reorientation and Responses to the Asian Financial Crisis: The Case of the Manufacturing Industry in Singapore," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 21(1_2), pages 189-211, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:asiapa:v:21:y:2004:i:1_2:p:189-211
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    1. Amorim Varum, Celeste & Rocha, Vera Catarina, 2012. "The effect of crises on firm exit and the moderating effect of firm size," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 114(1), pages 94-97.
    2. Marleen Dieleman & Wladimir Sachs, 2006. "Oscillating between a relationship-based and a market-based model: The Salim Group," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 23(4), pages 521-536, December.
    3. Shirokova, G. & Beliaeva, T. & Gafforova, E., 2016. "Strategic orientations during economic crisis: Stay focused or adopt a broader strategic direction?," Working Papers 6444, Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University.
    4. Varum, Celeste Amorim & Rocha, Vera Catarina Barros, 2011. "Do foreign and domestic firms behave any different during economic slowdowns?," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 48-59, February.
    5. Annamaria Bianchi & Silvia Biffignandi, 2017. "The effect of size on business net change during crises: a multifactor partitioning analysis of Italian regions during 2007–2010," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 10(2), pages 237-251, July.

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